Poverty now comes with a color TV

Christian Science Monitor/msn.com ^ | Jan. 5, 2006 | staff

[youthgonewild]

"Poverty now comes with a color TV"

Where exactly would you find a black & white TV? You'd probably have to take a day off work to scour pawn shops.

[theFIRMbss]

Soon, the world's poor folk
will all have their own laptop!
Then they'll be happy!

[wouldntbprudent]

Oh, yeah, baby! Then Africa will stop being the world's armpit. Depostism and corruption will melt away.

[Chuckster]

I have maintained for years that the biggest single improvement anyone can make in their life is to get rid of the TV altogether. I believe this is especially true for welfare and low income households. Nothing good comes out of the idiot box. (Except MLB of course)

[Fierce Allegiance]

including coror TVs.

Japanese models, obviously.

[Chuckster]

You shouldn't post images at FR if you have a bandwidth limit

d8^)

[Chuckster]

Its not the expenditures, per se; its where the money comes from to pay for this stuff - i.e. taxpayers

[subterfuge]

You make some good points old. But these days, people on the lower end of the income spectrum are absolutely sure that the reason they don't have lots of bling, drive a Bently and have their choice of fine homes and lay-dees, is all the fault of conservative white Repbulican racists determined to keep them down, i.e. It's the man causing their problems of "poverty."

[wouldntbprudent]

Now there's an idea.

Instead, we are now going to buy everyone a HD converter box! Whoopee!

Now our nation's poor will not only have tv, but HIGH DEFINITION tv. Wowzer!

[subterfuge]

Pic of a frog? Or is that a toad?

:^)

[Revolting cat!]

My grandfather didn't even have a TV, cell phone or iPod!

[Revolting cat!]

America is the only country in the history of the world where the hungry are fat!

[ruthles]

I grew up in a very frugal home. My dad says "take care of your money, and your money will take care of you." So as a college student when I went to an orphanage in Ensenada Mexico and saw the "poor" with satellite discs, expensive tennis shoes, etc. I couldn't understnad it. If we were low on cash the last thing my parents would've bought was a satellite dish.

[Rebelbase]

First time I've ever seen them impose a bandwidth limit.

[wouldntbprudent]

Frugality has made many a person rich!

[wouldntbprudent]

Poverty Hype

Posted by FreeKeys
On 01/05/2006 12:12:35 PM PST · 5 replies · 263+ views

Capitalism Magazine ^ | January 4, 2006 | Dr. Walter E. Williams
Despite claims that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, poverty is nowhere near the problem it was yesteryear -- at least for those who want to work. Talk about the poor getting poorer tugs at the hearts of decent people and squares nicely with the agenda of big government advocates, but it doesn't square with the facts. Dr. Michael Cox, economic adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and Richard Alm, a business reporter for the Dallas Morning News, co-authored a 1999 book, "Myths of Rich and Poor: Why We're Better Off Than We Think," that...

[No.6]

Bump for later.

[Melas]

What can I say? I disagree with most of what you say.

The only thing I found agreeable was your statement on tax cuts. That I agreed with.

[Minutemen]

When I went to Mexico 20 years ago, it amazed me at the relative squalor the average Mexican lived in. But all of them had color televisions.
Most Mexicans did not know that television started out as a black & white medium. They were born starting out with color tv's.
They never had to endure the "hardship" of watching tv in black & white.

[seoul62]

You are so correct, I am from NYC, seen all the scams but you also forgot to add Juicy-Couture Sweats, Sean-John and Roca-wear.........